Media from FTP <= 11.16 - Authenticated (Author+) Improper Privilege Management

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2023-4019
CVSS Medium (6.3)
Publicly Published August 14, 2023
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Dmitrii Ignatyev
Description

The Media from FTP plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to improper privilege management due to an insufficient capability check on the plugin's menu pages in versions up to, and including, 11.16. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author-level permissions and above, to modify plugin settings on multi-site installations.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug media-from-ftp (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 11.16
Patched Version
  • 11.17
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